Relations between student learning patterns and personal and contextual factors and academic performance

Higher Education

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 205-234

  Vermunt, Jan D ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Contextual influences; Learning strategies; Learning style; Personal factors; Student learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444421884     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-004-6664-2     Document Type: Article

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